Speaker: Dr. Landon Getz, PhD.
About the Speaker: Dr. Landon J. Getz is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry within the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Landon is a Gay/Queer man and a molecular bacteriologist specializing in bacterial genetics and phage-host interactions. He is a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow and the recipient of the inaugural GSK-EPIC Convergence Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto. Dr. Getz’s work is currently focused on the collaborative and competitive relationship between bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, and their bacterial hosts.